Adobe Photoshop Introduction and Intermediate

Course Overview

This 2 day course is ideal for those who have little or no experience using Adobe Photoshop and who need to learn the basic skills that are necessary to begin using the program effectively.

At the end of the course the students will be able to familiar with the Photoshop working environment, creating and editing multi-layer files.

The Photoshop Environment

• What does Photoshop do?
• Introducing pixels and selections
• The navigator window: getting around in an image, zoom shortcuts
• Using the history palette
• Multiple undo and snapshots

Image Basics

• Resolution and file size
• Different image formats and their uses
• Colour types

Selection Basics

• The different selection tools
• The magic wand and tolerance settings
• Inverting selections
• Feathering selections
• Anti-aliasing
• Expanding and contracting selections
• Transforming selections
• Adding to and subtracting from selections

Adjusting Images

• Working with Levels and Curves
• Hue and saturation
• The info palette

Layers

• Creating new layers and duplicate layers
• Importing layers from other images
• Giving layers transparency
• Linking and merging layers

Channels

• Adjusting individual channels
• Saving and loading selections

Saving Files

• Adjusting image size
• Changing colour type
• Flattening layers
• Cropping images

The Painting Tools

• Brush selection and adjustment
• Colour selection
• Creating new brushes
• Using patterns
• The other painting tools
• The healing and clone stamp tools

Masks

• Quick masks
• Layer masks
• The graduated fill tool
• Editing gradient properties

The Pen Tool

• Creating and editing paths
• Generating clipping paths

More About Layers

• Adding layer effects
• Creating and using layer sets
• Clipping groups and their uses
• Changing the hierarchy of layers

Working With Type

• Editing type
• Colouring type
• Distorting type Rasterizing type layers